The Vault
“ABANDON ALL HOPE,
YE WHO ENTER HERE”
— Dante Alighieri
“When In Doubt, Double The Dose.”
— Timothy Leary
This section IS a repository for assorted ramblings.
A hodge-podge grab-bag of mind meanderings & random thoughts
without any distinct or discernible home.
Only for the brave, the Masochistic, and the inexhaustibly bored.
TELEOLOGICAL SPIRAL OF OPPOSITES
“Gentle Reader,
may you never feel what I then felt!
May your eyes
never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears
as poured from mine.
May you never
appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized
as in that hour left my lips:
for never may you,
like me,
dread to be
the instrument of evil
to what you wholly love.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The poet makes himself clairvoyant
by a long, rational and immense disordering
of all the senses…
All forms of love, suffering, madness:
he searches himself;
he consumes all the poisons in himself,
to keep only their quintessence.
Unspeakable torture, where he needs
all his faith, every superhuman strength,
during which he becomes the great patient,
the great criminal, the great accursed
– and the supreme Knower…”
—Arthur Rimbaud, ‘Voyant’ Letter
“The force called “thinking”
which impels Mind into
concentration and decentration
in sequence
is the only energy of the universe.
There is no other energy.
The universe is Mind only.”
—Walter Russell, The Universal One
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies,
comes to such a pass
that he cannot distinguish the truth
within him, or around him,
and so loses
all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect
he ceases to love,
and in order to occupy and distract himself without love
he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures,
and behaves in the end
like an animal in satisfying his vices.
all from continually lying — to others and to yourself.”
―Fyodor Dostoyevsky